History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.
OTTO VON BISMARCKThe great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
More Otto von Bismarck Quotes
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A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
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A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
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Hounds follow those who feed them.
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Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
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There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
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What we learn from History is that no one learns from History.
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I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.
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Politics ruins the character.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
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Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.
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It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.
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